entoderm

American  

[en-tuh-durm] / ˈɛn təˌdɜrm /

noun

Embryology.

1. endoderm.

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entoderm British  

/ ˈɛntəʊˌdɜːm /

noun

1. embryol another name for endoderm

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Other Word Forms

• entodermal adjective
• entodermic adjective

Etymology

Origin of entoderm

First recorded in 1875–80; ento- + -derm

Example Sentences

The mesoderm that extends ventrad from the mesentery, on each side of the entoderm just described, consists of a thick layer of compactly arranged cells.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

The reason of its peculiar narrowness here is that it is, for the most part, full of yelk-cells of the entoderm.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Between the ectoderm and entoderm of the gastrula, in the space occupied by the supporting membrane of hydra, a new layer of cells, the mesoderm, appears.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

C. From the third layer of the embryo, the entoderm, arises:—   The fat and the marrow.

From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.

The cells of both layers have at their bases long muscular fibrils, those of the ectodermal cells running longitudinally, those of the entoderm transversely.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason